Keeping the Jewel in the Crown

An in-depth look at what truly happened when the Great Britain gave India its independence, from the author of Five Days from Defeat .   When India became independent in 1947, the general view, which has prevailed until now, is that Britain had been steadily working for an amicable transfer of power for decades. In this book, Walter Reid argues that nothing could be further from the truth. With reference to a vast amount of documentary material, from private letters to public records and st